Hugues Alary is a seasoned Site Reliability Engineer with 14+ years of hands-on experience building and scaling high-performance web and infrastructure platforms, now based in the San Francisco Bay Area. He has driven major migrations and reliability improvements at scale—leading Kubernetes/EKS migrations, redesigning secure networking and Vault integrations, and automating AWS infrastructure with Terraform for teams of 400+ developers. Previously he grew Betabrand’s ecommerce stack from thousands to hundreds of thousands of orders, pairing deep PHP/Magento expertise with systems work across Varnish, Memcached and MySQL. An advocate for documentation, standardization and developer self-service, he combines SRE on-call discipline with pragmatic automation and strong mentorship. His open-source contributions include practical enhancements to the docker-machine xhyve driver—improving NFS sharing and VM mount robustness—highlighting a knack for improving developer workflows.
14 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Certification IT Management, Certification IT Management at Dominican University of California
Master 2 Computer Science, Master 2 Computer Science at SUPINFO
docker-machine/minikube/minishift driver plugin for xhyve/hyperkit (native macOS hypervisor.framework)
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
Contributions:6 commits, 15 PRs, 12 comments in 1 year 3 months
Contributions summary:Hugues primarily contributed to enhancing the xhyve driver for Docker Machine, focusing on NFS share functionality. They implemented the ability to share multiple host folders within the guest, and refactored the mounting process to use `driver.RunSSHCommandFromDriver()`, improving the system's flexibility and aligning with best practices. These changes involved modifying the `bootlocal.sh` script and associated configuration flags, resulting in a more robust sharing mechanism. The user also retired the `xhyve-experimental-nfs-share-enable` flag.
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Hugues Alary - Sr. Site Reliability Engineer II at Crusoe